"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
Aaron Copland - US composer (1900 - 1990) |
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"I started making music because I could."
Alanis Morissette - Singer/songwriter |
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley - British Writer |
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"Let knowledge grow from more to more but more of reverence in us dwell; that mind and soul according well may make one music as before."
Alfred Lord Tennyson - English Poet (1809 - 1892) |
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"Melody is the golden thread running through the maze of tones by which the ear is guided and the heart reached."
Anonymous - |
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"Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think."
Brian Eno - British Musician and producer |
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"All music is important if it comes from the heart"
Carlos Santana - Mexican Latin rock musician and guitarist (1947- ) |
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"Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul. The divine Letters (c. 550)"
Cassiodorus - Roman statesman and monk |
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"Where there is music there can be no evil."
Cervantes - Spanish novelist and playwright (1547-1616) |
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"Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character."
Confucius - Chinese Philosopher |
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"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
Dan Rather - US television newscaster (1931 - ) |
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"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
Ed Gardner - American comic actor, writer and director (1901-1963) |
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"If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know."
Edgar Cayce - American psychic (1877-1945) |
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"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Edgar Wilson Nye - US humorist (1850 - 1896) |
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Elvis Presley - American Rock Star |
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"Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass."
Frank Zappa - American Rock Musician |
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."
George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist (1856 - 1950) |
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
George Eliot - English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
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"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
George Eliot - English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
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"Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience."
Gustav Mahler - Austrian Composer (1860-1911) |
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"When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau - American writer and transcendentalist (1817-1862) |
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poet, educator and linguist (1807 - 1882) |
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"Music must take rand as the highest of the fine arts -- as the one which more than any other ministers to human welfare."
Herbert Spencer - British philosopher and sociologist (1820 - 1903) |
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"Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists."
Hermann Helmholtz - German Professor |
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"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards."
Homer - (The Odyssey) |
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Igor Stravinsky - Russian composer (1882 - 1971) |
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"Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence."
Jacques Barzun - American Academic |
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"Music is the human treatment of sounds."
Jean Michel Jarre - French Rock Musician |
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"Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written."
Jimi Hendrix - Legendary Rock Guitarist |
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"I hate music, especially when it's played."
Jimmy Durante - American comedian (1893-1980) |
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"Music is a means of rapid transportation."
John Cage - Experimental composer |
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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
John Erskine - US author (1879 - 1951) |
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"All music comes from God."
Johnny Cash - Country music artist |
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"Music is the greatest good that mortals know. And all of heaven we have below."
Joseph Addison - English Poet (1672-1719) |
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
Kin Hubbard - American cartoonist and humorist (1868-1930) |
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"Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. "
Leonard Bernstein - American Conductor |
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"Do you know that our soul is composed of harmony?"
Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance artist, inventor and philosopher. |
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"The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else so why not the music?"
Lou Reed - American Rock Star |
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"Music can change the world."
Ludwig Van Beethoven - German composer |
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"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Mark Twain - American humourist and writer (1835-1910) |
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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Martin Luther - German monk and theologian (1483-1546) |
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"If music could be translated into human speech it would no longer need to exist."
Ned Moram - American Musicologist |
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"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
Oliver Wendell Holmes - US author & physician (1809 - 1894) |
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"Music is the Lost Chord that has strayed hither from heaven."
P. A. Sheehan - Irish journalist, author, lawyer (1905-1995) |
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"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
Pierre Beaumarchais - French businessman & comic dramatist (1732 - 1799) |
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"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically."
Ray Charles - American musician |
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"Music is just a means of creating a magical state."
Robert Fripp - British Musician and producer |
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp - English guitarist, composer and a producer (1946- ) |
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"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
Samuel Johnson - English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
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"Music is love in search of a word."
Sidney Lanier - American Poet (1842-1881) |
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
Sir Edward Appleton - English atmospheric physicist (1892 - 1965) |
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"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
Sir Thomas Beecham - English conductor (1879 - 1961) |
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"Sure there is music even the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music whever there is a harmony order or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres."
Sir Thomas Browne - English author and physician (1605 - 1682) |
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Thomas Carlyle - Philosopher mathematician and historian (1795-1881) |
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"Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all but you are the music while the music lasts."
Thomas Eliot - American Poet (1888-1965) |
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"The music is not a story, it is not a picture, it is not a philosophy. It is simply my music. Listen to it don't describe it. Music being a special form of thought can express nothing but itself."
Varese - French Composer |
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"Song is the daughter of prayer and prayer is the companion of religion."
Viscount De Chateaubriand - French writer, politician and diplomat (1768-1848) |
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"Music can be made anywhere is invisible and does not smell."
W.H.Auden - British Poet |
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"Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too."
Wallace Stevens - American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. |
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"Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts."
Will Durant - Pulitzer Prize winning philosopher, writer and historian (1885 - |
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"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. "
William Congreve - English Playwright (1670 - 1729) |
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"If music be the food of love play on. Give me excess of it, that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and so die."
William Shakespeare - English Playwright |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion with its sweet air."
William Shakespeare - English Playwright |
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